"Morpheus!" Persephone exclaimed. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the screen. "Where are you right now? I'll pick you up?"

"No need." He managed a forced smile. "It's late. It's not safe for you to be out. Let's—"

"It's safe, very safe!"

As she spoke, she swiftly changed her clothes.

After emerging from the changing room, she picked up her phone and grinned at him. "Morpheus, I—"

He gently interrupted, "Sephy, you really don't have to pick me up. I have a place to stay."

"But you're not familiar with Southeast Aciatic!"

"It's alright." He smiled. "Be a good girl and go to bed. We'll meet tomorrow."

"But..."

Persephone was visibly upset as she wanted to see him right now.

Didn't he feel the same? Which couple could wait to see their partner in the same city after being apart for so long?

Nobody could change his mind once he decided on something. "Promise me that we will

"I promise."

gently and

feeling too well, either, as his

the distinctive heat and dampness of the

booked in the suburbs,

distance helped

throughout the night. His father appeared on the bloody

just stared, conveying with dim, cold eyes that they now belonged

I can be with her

at him with an ambiguous smile on his face. "You owe me for the rest of

"No..."

many people to die with me.

his back drenched in cold sweat.

arrived at the agreed-upon

great atmosphere and vibrant flowers blooming in the courtyard,

paid the cafe owner for the

when she saw him

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